Wednesday, April 9, 2003 7:30 p.m. at the Alumni Room, Oyate hall, University of Minnesota, Morris.
Dr. Lawrence Buell, professor of English at Harvard University, will deliver this year's Barber Lecture in Literature at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, in the Alumni Room of Oyate Hall at the University of Minnesota, Morris. The lecture is open to the public at no charge. A reception will follow in Oyate Hall.
Professor Buell teaches courses in the history of American literature and culture, and has a particular interest in environmentalist discourses, issues of cultural nationalism, and comparative approaches to American literary study including transatlantic and postcolonial models of inquiry. The 19th century, particularly the antebellum era, is his period of greatest expertise. He is the author of Literary Transcendentalism (1973), New England Literary Culture (1986), The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (1995), and Writing for an Endangered World Literature, Culture, and Environment in the United States and Beyond (2001).
Buell holds a bachelor's degree in English from Princeton University and a doctoral degree in English from Cornell University. Among several fellowships and awards, he received the National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellowship in 2002.
The Barber Lecture Series is made possible by a gift to the University of Minnesota, Morris from Laird Barber, UMM professor emeritus of English, and the late Dorothy Barber. (Contributed by Judy Riley, UMM News Service)
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